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How Obama’s BlackBerry got secured (2013)
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The Patent Office is “adjusting” to a Supreme Court ruling by ignoring it
In 2014, the Supreme Court decided the landmark Alice v. CLS Bank case. The Court held generic computers, performing generic computer functions, can’t make something eligible for patent protection. That shouldn’t be controversial, but it took Alice to make this important limitation on patent-...
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Mexican Protest Site Censored by GoDaddy with the U.S. Embassy's Help
The Mexican website 1dmx.org (mirror here), was set up in the wake of a set of controversial December 1st 2012 protests against the inauguration of the new President of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto. For a year, the site served as a source of information, news, discussion and commentary from the point...
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Introducing Superalignment
We need scientific and technical breakthroughs to steer and control AI systems much smarter than us. To solve this problem within four years, we’re starting a new team, co-led by Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, and dedicating 20% of the compute we’ve secured to date to this effort. We’re looking for excellent ML…
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Why Koreans ask what year you were born
Why age is crucial in Korea, affecting language, respect, and social relationships. What is Korean & international age?
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There's No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence
What is the function of a fire alarm?
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Zero-sum thinking on immigration will make America poorer
ZERO-SUM THINKING ON IMMIGRATION WILL MAKE AMERICA POORER Beatrice Magistro Nicolas Wittstock On June 23rd 2020, President Donald Trump imposed restrictions on several categories of visas for foreign workers until the end of the year. The proclamation his administration issued explaining this decision suspended…
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A Timeline of CIA Atrocities (1993)
A timeline of CIA atrocities.
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Camera sales are falling sharply
Camera sales are continuing to falling off a cliff. The latest data from the Camera & Imaging Products Association (CIPA) shows them in a swoon befitting a Bollywood roadside Romeo. All four bi…
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In Response to My first impressions of Web3
This a response to Moxie Marlinspike’s “My First Impression of Web3” Both gave me a feeling for how the space works. To be clear, there is nothing particularly “distributed” about the apps themselves: they’re just normal react websites. The “distributedness” refers to where the state and the logic/
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The world is run by people no smarter than you
This post was written as a reflection at the first Dev Writers Retreat. It's been really weird doing this in the PermaParty city while the world seemingly falls apart outside.…
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Cornell Ergonomics Web finds standing desks present their own issues
Sitting for more than 1 hour has been shown to induce biochemical changes in lipoprotein lipase activity (an enzyme involved in fat metabolism) and in glucose metabolism that leads to the deposit of fats in adipose tissue rather than these being metabolized by muscle, and extensive sitting also relates to heart…
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Is software abstraction killing civilization? (2021)
Or: Jonathan Blow is wrong but also right and we still need to prevent the collapse of civilization
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What it feels like to be bullied out of a job you love
Wesley Faulkner’s story
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Meta Myths
Meta deserves a bit of a discount off of its recent highs, but a number of myths about its business have caused the market to over-react.
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Feedly gets hit by DDoS attack, refuses to give in to blackmail
Feedly reports that it is suffering from a denial-of-service attack that could impact users’ ability to catch up with the latest updates from their favourite websites.
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IBM and the Holocaust (2017)
I have spent the last couple of years teaching folks about surveillance and what they can do about it, primarily in partnership with the Civil Liberties Defense Center and through a interdisciplinary course on surveillance and social movements . In reading about surveillance, I had come across, in multiple places, a…
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Gene banks aren’t enough to save the world’s food
Why gene banks aren’t enough to save the world’s food
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Twitter’s Shit Sandwich
On Twitter’s just-annoucned pan to require third-party clients to use OAuth.
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You cannot have a digital copy of the DC Code
On how the law was taken away from the people of Washington, DC by legal shenanigans
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When did the golden age of The Simpsons end?
It’d be difficult to argue against the fact that The Simpsons isn’t quite the show it once was. Even just a quick glance at the IMDb ratings is enough to see that the show is routinely not hitting the highs it did so regularly in the earlier seasons. I’d suggest...